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The Night of the Hunter : Something Wrong with Mr. Powell

Harry (Robert Mitchum) continues to stong-arm John (Billy Chapin) into revealing where his father's $10,000 is. Harry kills Willa (Shelley Winters) for overhearing.

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close-up, cutaway, diegetic sound, dissolve, expressive mise-en-scene, fade-out, framing, low-key lighting, medium close-up, medium long shot, medium shot, music, nondiegetic, pace, point-of-view shot, reaction shot, set, shallow focus, shot/reverse shot, sound advance, special effects, stinger, two-shot, voice-off, wipe

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American

"Something Wrong with Mr. Powell" in The Night of the Hunter. Directed by Charles Laughton, Paul Gregory Productions, 1955, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3308

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